A time reversal optical tomography (TROT) method for near-infrared (NIR) diffuse optical imaging of targets embedded in a highly scattering turbid medium is presented. TROT combines the basic symmetry of time reversal invariance and subspace-based signal processing for retrieval of target location. The efficacy of TROT is tested using simulated data and data obtained from NIR imaging experiment...

in this research the composition of polyurethane closed cell (pucc) with two different concentrations of sio2 nanoparticles (1.0 and 2.0 wt%) have been prepared. optical microscopy and sem imaging, watering uptake, ftir and raman spectroscopy of the synthesized samples were carried out. the optical microscopy imaging of samples showed differences in the appearance of matrix produced by applying...

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) has the potential to reveal optical contrast deep inside soft biological tissues at an ultrasonically determined spatial resolution. The optical imaging depth reported so far has, however, been limited, which prevents this technique from broader applications. Our latest experimental exploration has pushed UOT to an unprecedented imaging depth. We de...

This paper provides an overview of optical imaging methods commonly applied to basic research applications. Optical imaging is well suited for non-clinical use, since it can exploit an enormous range of endogenous and exogenous forms of contrast that provide information about the structure and function of tissues ranging from single cells to entire organisms. An additional benefit of optical im...

Optical breast imaging offers the possibility of noninvasive, low cost, and high sensitivity imaging of breast cancers. Poor spatial resolution and a lack of anatomical landmarks in optical images of the breast make interpretation difficult and motivate registration and fusion of these data with subsequent optical images and other breast imaging modalities. Methods used for registration and fus...

Since the birth of information theory, to understand, study, and optimize optical imaging systems from information–theoretic viewpoint has been an important research subfield imaging, accompanied by a series corresponding advances. However, since “direct point-to-point” image acquisition mode traditional systems, which directly performs one-to-one signal mapping object detection plane, lacks “c...

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) uses the spatial and temporal coherence properties of optical waves backscattered from a tissue sample to form an image. An inherent characteristic of coherent imaging is the presence of speckle noise. In this study we use a new ensemble framework which is a combination of several Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural networks to denoise OCT images. The noise is...